Eating and preparing wild hog?????HELP!

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Sourced from the NY Times:

PORK

THE other pink meat?

That could be pork’s new slogan after the United States Department of Agriculture on Tuesday said it was lowering its safe cooking temperature to 145 degrees, from the longtime standard of 160. The new recommendation is in line with what many cookbook authors and chefs have been saying for years.

Remember LOW AND SLOW for temp/time in the smoker.

the lowering of cooking temperature is only valid for commercial raised pork wild pork is susceptible to participates and is the primary source of humans contracting Trichinosis which are round worms which occupy your muscles which is bad times.... cook wild pork thoroughly

http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/trichinellosis/